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Ooof. More problems. Hooray! At a party no less, how embarrassing. The Win2K Moviola machine locked up and then after clcking through an endless loop of error messages, I reset it. And it didn't reset. So today's unhelpful, unintuitive error message is "Error loading operating system".
CMOS sees it. S.M.A.R.T. says the volume appears to be OK. Booting from my extrafancy Win2KSP4 disc and attempting to even locate the Win2K install to repair was unsuccessful. So I've chosen the Console option. Do I want to FIXBOOT? Or possibly FIXMBA? I'm uncertain. (Do I want to fire the thing out of a cannon at a certain software magnate's house in Seattle? Oh, I'm quite certain.)
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I'm not sure, but isn't SMART useless for that sort of thing? I always thought it was more a long term error checking mechanism that allowed you to see when the drive was starting to degrade, rather than something to diagnose existing faults with?
I don't think you want either Fixboot or Fixmba. I'd go for Chkdsk. Possible with a /p or /r next to it. I forget. Whichever one forces it to do a thorough repair. Make some tea.
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